Beatriz Bolibar is a Barcelona-based interior designer and ceramic artist, and the founder of Cuit Studio. Trained in Interior Design at BAU and later completing a master’s degree in Hospitality Design at Elisava, she developed her early career working across high-end kitchens, as well as bars and restaurants in Amsterdam. While her professional path initially unfolded within hospitality, her focus gradually shifted toward the home — intimate, lived-in spaces shaped by light, material, and everyday rituals.

Working with ceramics since the beginning of her career, Bolibar developed a parallel practice that has become central to her work. What began as an intuitive and personal exploration evolved into a tactile extension of her spatial thinking, allowing her to move between scale, from architecture to object.

Through Cuit Studio, she brings together interior architecture and hand-built stoneware pieces — often conceived as lighting, vessels, or quiet sculptural forms that inhabit domestic environments. Her work is guided by a slow, material-driven process rooted in craftsmanship, where texture, weight, and imperfection are embraced as essential qualities.

Balancing structure with sensitivity, her practice reflects a contemporary approach to living — one that values restraint, atmosphere, and emotional resonance over spectacle. Each project and object is conceived as part of a broader narrative of the home, where design is not only seen, but lived with over time.

1. Where were you born and where are you from ?

I was born and raised in Barcelona, Spain.

2. What is your first memory connected to the art world ?

My earliest memories are very domestic and very visual. As a child, I was obsessed with spaces — everywhere I went, I had to touch and see all the rooms. I didn’t know it then, but I was fascinated by how materials, colours, and lighting could tell a different story in every space.

At the same time, I spent hours drawing, making things with my hands, and even doing my brother’s art homework for fun.

3. Have you always worked in the art/design field ?

Yes. I studied interior design, and right after college, I started working in a high-end kitchen design studio in Barcelona. After a few years, I moved to Amsterdam and worked in a design studio doing hotels and restaurants. In between that, I started doing ceramics as a hobby, and it ended up being a side job.

4. What led you to the design creation ?

When I was younger, I always wanted to be an architect. I’d always enjoyed playing The Sims on the computer, building houses. As I grew up, I discovered physics, and that was a hell no. That’s when I heard about interior design. And I’ve never regretted it once.

Related to ceramics, there was a moment when I felt that drawings and screens weren’t enough. I needed to reconnect with something slower, more tactile, and more intimate than big interior projects. Ceramics appeared as a way to bring all my interests together.

5. How would you describe your creative process and it influences ?

My process is quite slow and intentional. It never starts the same. Sometimes it comes from a feeling, sometimes from a necessity or an object that I’d like to redesign, and other times it comes from intuition. But once an idea is formed, I like to draw it first, sketch it, and see the proportions.

And from there, I start handbuilding it with clay, and retouch any flaws the first sketches have. Shape, balance, type of finish… I’m influenced by architecture, movement, and slow design — spaces and objects that don’t scream for attention but quietly hold you.

6. Could you describe a typical day of your work ?

Having two professions makes it hard to have a strictly “typical” day, but there is a rhythm. I usually wake up around 7 or 8, have breakfast, and two or three times a week I do some sport before starting work. In the mornings, I either go to the construction site or stay at the office for focused work: emails with clients and artisans, drawings for interior projects, and technical decisions.

I normally take about an hour for lunch, and then, two afternoons or evenings a week, I go to the ceramic studio, where the pace becomes slower and more meditative as I design and prototype new pieces, letting the work with clay balance the more structured part of my day.

7. Why did you choose the specific materials you work with ?

I’m drawn to materials that feel honest and slightly imperfect. In ceramics, I mostly work with stoneware and chamotte clays, because they have body, weight, and a beautiful grain that catches the light. They also age well and can live in a home for a very long time. For glazes, I’m interested in subtle, earthy tones — finishes that don’t fight with the space but become part of it.

8. What are the technical particularities of your creations ?

Most of my ceramic pieces are hand-built rather than thrown on the wheel. I use coil and slab techniques, which allow me to work almost architecturally with volumes, negative space, and thickness.

I like to keep some surfaces raw, and others glazed, so the contrast between matte and gloss creates a quiet tension. For lighting pieces and appliques, there is a lot of hidden technical work: integrating wiring, thinking about how the object interacts with the wall, how the light washes the surface, and creating shadows. The result looks simple, but the construction behind it is very controlled.

9. What advices could you give to beginning artists who would like to create sculptural design works ?

Start with your hands, not with the image. Learn the material, fail with it, push it to the point where it almost breaks, and see what happens.

Be patient with yourself: sculptural design, especially in ceramics, is a long conversation with drying times, firing schedules, and gravity. Also, stay close to craft — visit workshops, speak with artisans, understand how things are made. It will give depth and honesty to your work.

10. If your works had to belong to a design movement, in which one would you define it ?

I feel close to what people call “slow design” and to a kind of contemporary wabi-sabi: pieces that embrace imperfection, tactility, and time.

At the same time, my practice fits within the wider movement of sculptural, collectible design — but at a domestic scale, always thinking of how the object will live in someone’s everyday rituals rather than on a pedestal.

11. What designers and artists have influenced you ?

Coderch, Jeremy Anderson, Sabine Marcelis.

12. What contemporary designers do you appreciate ?

Zhu Ohmu, Olivia Cognet, LRNCE.

13. What contemporary artists (in any kind of art) have you been inspired by ?

Eliurpi, Carla Cascales, Athena Calderone.

14. If you had to summarize your creations in one word or sentence, what would it be ?

Domestic altars for everyday rituals.

15. Is there anything you would like to add ? 

Only that, for me, sculptural design is not about objects as trophies, but about companions for daily life.

PROUST QUESTIONNAIRE
(The Proust Questionnaire is a set of questions answered by the French writer Marcel Proust.
Other historical figures who have answered confession albums are Oscar Wilde,
Karl Marx, Arthur Conan Doyle, Stéphane Mallarmé, Paul Cézanne…)

11. Which words or phrases do you most overuse?

Yeah…

12. Which talent would you most like to have?

To play an instrument.

13. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?

To trust my intuition faster and doubt less.

14. What do you consider your greatest achievement?

Being on the path of creating a studio and a life that feels aligned with who I am.

15. If you were to die and come back as a person or a thing, what would it be?

A Mediterranean sunset.

16. Where would you most like to live?

On a Greek island.

17. What is your most treasured possession?

A blanket recently handmade by my mom.

18. What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?

Feeling completely disconnected from yourself and from others.

19. What is your favorite occupation?

The creative process of shaping spaces and objects.

20. What is your most marked characteristic?

Calmness and attention to detail.

21. What do you most value in your friends?

Loyalty, emotional honesty, and being able to laugh together about everything.

22. Who are your favorite writers?

Joyce Caroll Oates, Margaret Atwood, Sally Rooney.

23. Who is your hero of fiction?

Circe (Greek mythology).

24. Which historical figure do you most identify with?

Frida Kahlo.

25. Who are your heroes in real life?

The artisans I work with every day.

26. What are your favorite names?

Ona, Nil.

27. What is it that you most dislike?

Chaos.

28. What is your greatest regret?

The times I didn’t listen to myself soon enough.

29. How would you like to die?

Sleeping.

30. What is your motto?

Design with intention, live with warmth.